The American Short Story Cycle :
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The American Short Story Cycle shows the roots of modernism and postmodernism winds through the short story cycle. Reviewers ranging from the The New York Times to Amazon do not know what to call books like Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad or Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth. Why do such popular and acclaimed books spark debates about what they are and how they should be read? The American Short Story Cycle provides a history of this genre that has been hiding in plain sight. Dating back to the early nineteenth century and proliferating to the present, the short story cycle has been wildly popular both in the US and around the world. Stories in a cycle, which can be read singly but mean more together, reflect the individualism and pluralism that shape modern experience. This book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation and recurrence that characterize fiction today.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781474423946
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Dedication
  7. Introduction: Forming Provisional Identities
  8. 1. Locating the Short Story Cycle
  9. 2. The Persistence of Place
  10. 3. Writing Time in Metaphors
  11. 4. Tracing New Genealogies
  12. 5. Resisting Identity
  13. 6. Atomic Genre
  14. Coda: Novellas-in-Flash and Flash Cycles
  15. Selected American Short Story Cycles
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index